This lucid dream needs its own thread

I had the most realistic lucid dream ever. I can remember it in considerable detail, but here is the gist of it as I wrote in my notebook:

I was recruited as a spy for some sort of agency. First, my mentor ran me through the basics - my room, his eccentric style of clothing, our christmassy commons hall, and before I knew it I was on a mission.

We went through a busy (modern) English shopping street. Mentor decided to go into a Nationwide bank; I went to an ATM just up the road, and some chavs came up to me and peered as I was typing my PIN. They were obviously trying to steal my card. I told them to f**k off and went back to my mentor. I realised that one of my shoes was missing. The chavs must have stolen it. They were now going to shoe shops taking customers' shoes which had been left outside. I confronted the chavs as I saw them packing shoes into humanitarian aid boxes and loading them into a pickup truck. I took a few out using a heavy shopping bag and some swift kicks to the head. As they tried to escape in their truck, I jumped onto the back and retrieved my shoes, then jumped off to pursue them in my mentor's car. We drove through rugged hills as far as a tundra rail crossing, till it appeared that they had eluded us. I figured out it was a devious stolen shoe laundering scheme.

We went back to base, and my mentor showed me the tie shop, and suggested I wear a classy blue tie instead of my green one.

I went to the canteen, and at the counter I was asked weird questions by a Japanese lady. Weird questions. When I said I was a student, the whole mess room went silent. The director told everyone to salute me. I was the only university student here; everyone was in awe, and all the ex-marines (including my mentor) were proudly laid off on the spot. At this stage, I wondered what would happen to my studies, and woke up.

edited 1st Jan '11 5:00:13 AM by Shichibukai

I know, that made my father laugh.

Shichi: How do you get a lucid dream? I've kept a dream journal for a short time to record dream signs and only gotten one lucid dream where I ride an ostrich.

I have semi-lucid dreams all the time.

They're not cool.

I don't know how, just that they started last October, seemingly by complete accident.

-consoles-

edited 1st Jan '11 4:37:25 AM by Shichibukai

Isn't the point of lucid dreaming that you can control what happens in it? (To a certain extent, anyway.) If it's a lucid dream, you should be able to just add awesome.

Which is why I added the semi- to it.

In that, I am experiencing the events- I can feel the pain, the desperation- but I have no conscious control over the events of the dream itself.

For the people who were asking for how to have a lucid dream, it just so happens I've had this open in another tab for the past couple days: http://www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html

Good luck actually trying to get one to work.

See, you need more dreams like mine about grape-flavored cookies or heart-shaped hot tubs.

And less about sixty-feet-long man-eating sharks that like to nibble slowly away at you, like mine >.<

You know what, someone can do that joke better. Thumped.

edited 1st Jan '11 5:13:56 AM by Foobar2000

I get sleep paralysis a lot. It's really terrible.

I had a weird sorta not-quite-lucid dream last night, in which my mother had her basement finished as a bedroom for me. Then I noticed there was a huge window in the middle of the basement wall, and realized that, since this was impossible, I must be dreaming. I then told Mother that, while I appreciated what she'd done, I was disappointed it was just a dream.

Then I sang "Beat It", because why not.

edited 1st Jan '11 10:46:58 AM by CentralAvenue

one of my more trippy lucid dreams, it actually spans billions of years within the dream timeframe

I dreampt I was a scientist experimenting with nanomachines, and I accidently got infected by them, they consumed me but left my mind in tact, practically a superhero (or supervillian) origin story, I decided to become a walking grey goo scenario and when I absorbed my computer I found I also absorbed into my mind the knowledge and data contained within the computer (and my body could replicate any function of the computer as well, so I could just form a wifi antenna in my brain and go online) so I decided I was going to assimilate EVERYTHING, nothing could stop me, and whenever I absorbed a person I added their memories and knowledge to my hive mind, after I finished absorbing everything on earth I began absorbing the earth itself, and with my collective intellegence I could refashion my nanites down to the size of quarks, and I started my transition from grey goo into full on cosmic horror/eldritch abomination, consuming the rest of the planets in the solar system until I was big enough to absorb the sun itself, then moving on and devouring other solar systems until I was large enough to consume large sections of the milky way, then the entire milky way, then entire other galaxys themselves, after I had consumed all matter in the universe I opened rifts to parallel dimensions and rifts in time and leaked in and consumed them as well, until I had finally consumed all realities, all times and all possible variations thereof, I was everything, so what I did was using my what was essentially godhood I recreated everything in a new big bang disconnected my sapience from everything and allowed myself as my normal human self to be reborn in this new incarnation of the universe and earth.....just so I can start it all over again

So, I guess I should have mine here then too...

I had a very vivid, lucid dream a few weeks ago. After marathoning Doctor Who and reading two Harry Potter Books in one week, I started to dream disjointed dreams about the Doctor and Hogwarts. On the last day of the week, all of these dreams combined to form my vivid dream. In that dream, the Tenth Doctor took me, in his TARDIS, to Hogwarts, as the Daleks and Death Eaters were mounting an attack on the castle. I remember fighting with the Doctor against them, with a makeshift wand (Yes, I suddenly could do magic.) while the Doctor had his Sonic. I felt everything, terror and awe at the Doctor's fury, and the adranneline as I destroyed a Dalek. After we both almost destroyed every single Dalek and Death Eater, the Doctor smiled at me, and I heard a ringing. I woke up to the sound of my mother's phone clock and her voice. I have never had a more lucid dream in my entire life.

Lucky B's. All of ya.

I don't think I've ever managed a lucid dream... I've sucessfully identified dream signals before, but what usually happens is my brain goes "oh, that's normal, because this is a dream!" and then I go right on normally dreaming. Dammit!

One time I had a dream (there was a lion at some point, and something to do with Persona) and dream me was like "hey cool then I can change things because it's a dream" but then nothing happened.